The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-06-25
Exchange Gossip.


The marriage license bill has been sign
ed by the governor and will become a Law
in three months After September mex
youths and maidens who wish to get int,
the Moose of the tie that binds will be r.
CURED to make affidavit for license, pa,
| nifty cents clerk fees ana obtain the con
sent of their parents or guardians, in Gas,
of their being minors, before being mar
ried .-RdlamdzOO Uerdld.
A gorgeous funeral is he only imposing
procession /. which the man most inter
es'ed takes no interest whatever.-Fdl
Rirer 4dcmce.
Chicago expends over two million dol
lars year on her public schools, and OF
this amount $4,000 Is paid for teaching
foreign languages. En-.
The San Francisco Chronicle saws that
an exodus of Chinese from the Pacific
slope to cities along the Atlantic sea board
is setting in,-Er,
The Government still owns thirty nine
million acres of unsurveyed land 10 Neva
da.
Little boys, what are you doing with
all that mud?" Pleath, thir, we's dess
pilin' 1t up in two big piles" But what
are you going to do with it," ewes goin'
to play editor. Tommy's goin' to be a
publican editor, an Is goin' to be a dem.
ocrat editor, an "e's goin' to pelt each 9th.
er dess as the fortuly editors does.-Chica-
90 Nems,
Colonel Howells, the novelist, has been
granted "A pension of fifteen hundred dol
lars year from the New York State civil
list rs recognition of his literary service
PUCK.
In lawsuit over an old painting In
New York, some experts valued IL at 800
and some at $4,000 The 500 experts
could plainly discern that il WAS portrait
of child while the $4,000 judges were
unable to determine whether it was storm
at sea or the death of Shakespeare Nor
ristOioa UerdId
August Spies has lost his voice. The
man who finds 1t will please keep still
Pittsburg Chr0niele.
81 know modest shaded bower" read
the poet to the editor.
81 know that same bower" interrupted
the editor. at WAS turned up from the
bottom of the pack. Washington Chron.
icie.
The Illinois House has passed an appro-
priation of 1925 900 for the Elgin Insane
Asylum.
The difference between Knight of La
Dor and base ball player is that the form.
er, If his wages are reduced will strike,
and the latter won't
The male wasp, the naturalists tell us,
never stlngs. But so long as he and his
sister are twins, and dress exactly alike,
this bit of knowledge availeth nothing to
the careless man who does not know il is
the lady who Is approaching him, until it
be that she smiteth him with her hustle
What humanity deman g of science In the
case Of the wasp Is the invention of some
prompter method of distinguishing be.
tween monsieur and madamewazze at for
~ ards.-Brooklyn Eagle.
A few years of sheep pasturing will
clean off the weeds from almost any land.
-Er.
Now when We kept garden we used to
.hink sometimes of getting an axe and
,uttlng down the weeds, but the next time
We have any trouble of that kind we'll jusi
urn the scribes of some of our mutton
headed cotemporaries In there, as the above
TEN suggests.
The Dominion Senate has decided that
divorce granted In the United States is of |
10 effect in Canada.
fanl O., IL.
Tx moBths old" advises dairyman, and |
We think that some boarding. house keep
RS have apparently adopted this same rule
Ibont boarders. Most of the corn meal
hey feed them Is at least six months old.
A country subscriber inquiries: "What
S cheese cloth? Cheese cloth Is that del.
cacy that frequently clogs your teeth when
'0u tackle a free lunch.-Er.
The commencement season Is close at
land. 1t is called commencement "
because the fathers of the fair
graduates commence" to see what they
'ost-JOliet Signal.
There are ninety-six thousand men in
he postal service of Uncle Sam.
Fogg suspects that some of the money
pent for flowers during the Kapiolani Wis
I went for toddY blossoms--Bostoa Tran
crypt,
1t Is said that 2S7 pairs of twins we're
BORN In Chicago last year. This may &C.
,onnt for some Of the squalls on Lake
Michigan.
The commencement exercises of the
Michigan military academy were held last